A Planet of Viruses

作者 卡尔·齐默（Carl Zimmer），知名科普作家，在耶鲁大学教授科学和环境写作。他写过多本广受欢迎的科普作品，包括《演化》《在水的边缘》《万物身刻》等，曾于2007年摘得美国国家科学院科学传播奖（The National Academies Communication Award），这一奖项是该领域的桂冠荣誉。译者 刘旸（桔子），毕业于北京大学，后于芝加哥大学取得分子、遗传及细胞生物学博士学位，九三学社成员，科学写作者、记者，科学松鼠会成员，果壳网吱扭App主编。与他人合著出版《当彩色的声音尝起来是甜的》《一百种尾巴或一千张叶子》《冷浪漫》等作品，另有译作《共情时代》《永生的海拉》等。

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Carl Zimmer

页数:128

出版时间:2011-5-1

价格:USD 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226983356

图书标签:科普virus医学美国biology非虚构英文病毒

Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground. This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses-a world that each of us inhabit. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine's award-winning blog The Loom, presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come. In this eye-opening tour through the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life as we know it, we learn that some treatments for the common cold do more harm to us than good; that the world's oceans are home to an astonishing 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses; and that the evolution of HIV is now in overdrive, spawning more mutated strains than we care to imagine. The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer as fine a science essayist as we have.A" A Planet of Viruses is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as one of America's most respected and admired science journalists.

读后感

“病毒”这个词最早来自罗马帝国，当时的意思是蛇的毒液或者人的精液。这一个词被赋予了“毁灭”和“创造”两层意思。而后直到19世纪晚期“病毒”这个词才比较接近我们现在采用的意思。作者称病毒学还是一个很初期的学科，我们对它的认识也只是凤毛麟角，就连我们呼吸的氧气很...  

献给这个世界 我至爱的宿主们 新冠病毒最近几个月成了宇宙级网红，流转于巴黎，纽约，米兰各大秀场，成了所有人的关注的焦点 那么今天要读的这本书 卡尔·齐默的《病毒星球》就是介绍了这个网红的诞生之路，她的整容史，她的发迹之路，以及这个家族的一票网红。 ▲宇宙网红 Chi...  

用户评价

感觉内容略微有些浅，更像是一本常识宣传的小册子，但常识也不是每个人生来就有的，也是需要学习的。给四颗星。

小中见大，不容小觑，微小的力量具有极强的统治力，很好的科普读物，有点儿记录片的感觉

简单好读。

简单好读。

浑身鸡皮疙瘩 今日再看，感慨良多